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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves
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by Ira Berlin
Sales Rank: 229988
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List Price: $19.50
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Cover Type: Paperback with 384 pages
Published by: Belknap Press September 30, 2004
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0674016246
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0674016248
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Reader Reviews
This review is from: Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (Hardcover)
This review is written by someone who has just became acquainted with many of the details of the enslavement of [African][-][Americans] on the land that would eventually become the United States of America. "Generations of Captivity" introduced me to this long and tragic history. Written in a simple narrative format, helpfully broken up into five generations of African American slavery--the Charter [~1600-1720], Plantation [~1720-1776], Revolutionary [1776-1812], Migration [1812-1861] and Freedom generations--as well as geographical regions, Berlin's narrative of this ugly spectacle in American history is easy to follow and extremely informative to newcomers to the subject like myself. That being said, the book appears to be an abridged version of his previous book, "Many Thousands Gone." There are very few direct quotes from primary sources, and the statistics provided during the narrative are general at best (though a table of statistics is provided in an appendix). While Berlin's book introduced me to many of the specificities of slavery in the United States, I got the nagging feeling that, while I was reading this, something was missing. I'm probably being too critical, as each generation he writes about has most likely been the subject of numerous book-length studies in and of themselves, and it is Berlin's job here to condense all of them into a single narrative. This book is a very good introduction to the topic and I feel I have some more insight into it now. But those who have spent plenty of time with this subject material might want to search elsewhere.
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